“Steven, GREEN is obviously more of a John colour”
“blue”
“NO GREEN”
“BLUE
“I’m changing it to green”
“No you fucking are not”
like this?
I don’t have words for this.
😂
That’s why I love this fandom 😂❤
The work of our fairy god-monsters of course! LOL
Originally from 2011? I love the fact that I’m just now seeing this, in October 2017, and it has nearly 63k notes! Amazing, fantastic! That’s why I love this fandom! 😀
akjdfsh john, pls deduce, how could mrs hudson have seen this on her computer downstairs in her flat downstairs if she hadn’t got back downstairs okay?? sherlock must have died reading this
sure this was posted at his peak soft time but it’s also peak trash, like he added a comment to his own blog post rather than getting up and genuinely checking the staircase
I was reading Sherlock’s post on John’s blog – which also is the very last post on that blog – when I realized something in the comments section that I probably should have noticed ages ago:
Does this ring any bell? ANYONE!?
Talking about elephants in the room, but this has been there since Series 3, hiding in plain sight. Three things stand out to me:
1. Sherlock is hinting heavily about John’s wedding as a crime scene and what happened there. He seems very lonely and desperate for some attention; he has been leaving comments for two days, but no-one cares. John and ‘Mary’ have apparently read his post, but they both merely tell him to shut up.
2. Finally, when John no longer responds at all, Sherlock allows himself to be distracted by Mrs Hudson, and they’re about to play CLUEDO. As in “clue”.
This is very sad and very good, @possiblyimbiassed. I never really got it how ANYONE that is stressed so much in TLD and TST was just meant to point to Culverton Smith’s choice of victims. Because we get the ANYONE at a very crucial point in Sherlock’s life, one of the most crucial of all. He realises he has lost John for good. So he gets obsessed with the word but it is about him and John, not about some cereal killer.
In connection with the blog, however, it gets even more heartbreaking. Imagine Sherlock leaving the wedding with no one noticing or caring – we get the look from Molly but she goes on dancing – and then sitting at home and not even getting answers to his blog comments.
For me more or less the whole of S3/TAB/S4 is about Sherlock trying to live without John, coming to terms with having lost the persons that matters most to him. Sure, there is his past as well – do not get me started on this – but the one constant thing that is repeated again and again is Sherlock losing Johnin every conceivable way. @ebaeschnbliah
Remember how The Six Thatcher entry from John’s blog appeared in ASIB – an actual episode, but no one seems to remember in s4 lmao…
Side note: This is the scene in which John puts on his coat on twice
But anyway… What I wanted is that Sherlock literally says that the counter is stuck at one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, I don’t think that Moffat and Gatiss would choose 1895 by an accident, knowing WHAT happened in that year.
Also, what else I wanted to say, and… I probably should have started with this, cause it’s pretty weird… is that, Six Thatchers was published on 19th December but, John has written another entry after then and before the NY one
And, considering he wrote it right after it happened and the scene I am talking about happens AFTER the Christmas party, the question is, WHY is The Six Thatchers even on screen, it’s not the newest entry? Was Sherlock reading it? Was John staring at the pic of Sherlock wearing a hat? Who the hell knows… You know what would make MUCH MORE sense though? If Sherlock was looking at this
during the Christmas Party. At that time, TST would have been the latest entry, there is a photo of him wearing a hat, the counter on the blog is actually visible so it makes sense that he mentions it, long story short, it 100% FITS with all what he says during the Christmas party:
SHERLOCK: The counter on your blog: still says one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five. JOHN (pulling a mock-angry face): Ooh, no! Christmas is cancelled! (Sherlock points to the side bar which has one of the press pictures of him in his deerstalker.) SHERLOCK: And you’ve got a photograph of me wearing that hat! (x)
Except, instead of looking at a legit looking page that fits with what he’s saying, he is looking at this weirdly wonky page
A random photo of him wearing a hat covering up the hit counter and an unfinished entry that was supposed to be published months ago…? ?
I did a manip to demonstrate why the christmas party conversation fits much better if Sherlock was actually looking at the screen that we see a few scenes later, instead of that nonsense^^^^
This drives me bananas.
oh god. @monikakrasnorada remember that John’s blog timeline post I made as a joke a while back? It’s been in the back of my mind since, and it’s getting less funny each day……
Anytime we’ve been shown John writing up his blog- onscreen- it has looked like this:
However, in T6T, whenever we see the writing of John’s blog, it appears like this:
Nothing about the “Blog of John H Watson” or date, merely the title (we know how much Sherlock really loves the titles, no matter what he says because that is not the face of a man who could care less about the title)
Why change the format?
We also see that John isn’t even present for some of the cases, when clearly the ‘write-ups’ reflect that who ever is writing them was there when the client showed up:
For each and every case we see in this montage, the text of the blog posts coincides with Sherlock being on his phone, typing away, making it look as if he is writing them.
AND, the only time we see John ‘writing’ anything, it is a fake:
in tst when sherlock hears the shooting and instead of regarding his safety the first thing he decides to do is flip the table so john can take cover which is according to blog theory john thinking that sherlock is always recklessly risking his life for him
One of the things that attracts me most to the Blog Theory is that I finally feel like I have an answer to a question I’d had for 6 months. Since s4, I kept thinking to myself, “Well, okay, it’s fake, but why? Why would they do this? What real reason is there for them to have taken such a huge risk with writing a season intentionally off?”
But, I remember something Mofftiss said before s4; I can’t find the direct quotation, but they said they wanted to fix something everyone else had been missing. We all assumed that was johnlock, and while I do thik that’s a part of it, we were missing the bigger picture. There is precedent for Moffat and Gatiss viewing John Watson as an unreliable narrator and working it into their show. They read the ACD story The Adventure Charles Augustus Milverton as Watson making up a cover story for Holmes killing Milverton, and in the show, we got Sherlock shooting Magnussen in the head.
I can easily picture Mofftiss sitting back, incredibly frustrated for years, because people always took Dr. Watson at his word. So, what better way to tell everyone what they’ve been missing than to write an entire season that is John Watson’s censored, altered version of what really went on with his adventures with Sherlock? The Blog Theory forces people to reconsider ACD canon. Having a major Sherlock Holmes adaptation deceive the audience, and argue that the original Dr. Watson lied to his audience, too, would shed a different light on canon forever, and would raise the bar for all future adaptations. They really would make history within the world of Sherlock Holmes, but I think television, too, because I can’t think of a show that did something like this on this scale before.
And, there’s the added bonus of the Blog Theory allowing Mofftiss to more easily convince the audience that johnlock existed in canon, too. It would be harder to accuse them of fanserive or grossly misreading the characters if they turn around and say, “Hey, they’ve been together the whole time, but you never noticed because Watson had to keep his relationship with Holmes a secret to his Victorian readers. Didn’t you notice how often Mary Watson was missing from the stories? *laughs evilly*”
Obviously, the blog theory is just one reading right now, and none of us will 100% know for sure if it’s correct until s5 comes.
interesting note that the case from the blog that John gets complimented on, the aluminium crutch, is actually just a transcript of a voicemail that Sherlock left him. it is, perhaps, the most true account of all the cases on the blog, because John does no interpretation of the facts at all, he just transcribes Sherlock’s telling of it. and it is pointed out to us twice as a favorite case in universe, which I’d always loved as a bit of an inside joke because people compliment John on it when really it’s all Sherlock’s words, but even that goes to show the power the blog takes on in the story. once John writes it down, the truth of it becomes John’s telling of it – and for casual audiences at home who don’t know about the existence of the blog, the significance is lost entirely.
the best story is when sherlock leaves a message on john’s PHONE…. and john just transcribes sherlock’s message verbatim……. o kay. no texting. just sherlock talking directly to john’s heart. and john telling everyone exactly what he said. the best story
NO TEXTING..no edited text messages just talking directly into..bye
Joe Lidster talks about the process behind the blogs he writes for BBC Sherlock in a Feb 2012 (x) interview, post Sherlock S2 airing.
JOE: The thing that we’re all very keen on, is that they’re done ‘as real’. I mean, obviously on this websites you have to have a disclaimer somewhere, so people won’t think it’s a total new person (…) But on the blog itself and on the website; very keen that it’s all done in-universe, it’s all done as real. That there’s no sort of giveaway so this isn’t part of that universe.
INTERVIEWER: From what I saw, they all look very very subtle.
JOE: They’re very suble, I think there’s a tiny sort of thing at the bottom of the page. I mean, you have to be careful, because specially since it’s the BBC, it have to be seen to be truthful, so there is a disclaimer. It’s basically at the bottom of the page –I think it says ‘more information’– or something like that, and that takes you to a page that basically says ‘it’s a part of the Sherlock universe, here are the websites’.
If they’ve always been so careful to make it all look real, with only that tiny link to a disclaimer at the bottom of the page to account for it belonging to BBC…
Why would they put that huge message linking to the show’s website and utterly destroy the fourth wall? Perhaps because they wanted to cement the idea that the show’s universe is no longer “real”?
@teaandforeshadowing Very true! And I just realized they may have warned us about this long ago, back in TEH:
SHERLOCK: You have to trust me. I’ll find the answer. It’ll be
in an odd phrase in an online blog, or an unexpected trip to the
countryside, or a misplaced Lonely Hearts ad. (…) Rest
assured, Mycroft – whatever this underground network of yours is up
to, the secret will reside in something seemingly insignificant or
bizarre.
‘The answer will be in a seemingly insignificant, bizarre, odd phrase in an online blog’. Sherlock actually said that.
And it gets better when you factor in that Sherlock was talking about what turned out to be a very carefully planned conspiracy featuring a bisexual-coloured ticking time bomb hidden right underneath Sumatra Road –a nod to ‘the story for which the World is not yet prepared’.
In this TST scene there is (an image file of) a blog post about changing Rosie’s nappies that wasn’t supposed to be there at the time because Mary is in this same scene, still pregnant.
Just like Sherlock deduced in the Great Game (Fourth Pip/Fourth Season) that the painting’s a fake because the Van Buren Supernova wasn’t supposed to be there at the time it was said to be painted.
@chrysanthemumsies what an amazing presentation! Of course everything was discussed for many times, but it’s so good to see it as a presentation!
May I point to my favorite parts?
1. «Sherlock begins narrating a tale about the Appointment in Samarra, he’s setting the stage himself» – I can’t agree more, TST is definitely Sherlock’s POV/“creation”/narration for me.
2. I’ve finally sort everything through about repeated scenes!
Two scenes with John on the bus. They are the “same”, but in the second scene we see the continuation of the previous one, and that’s where the lie starts! It means, as you wrote, John didn’t flirt with E and didn’t accept her phone number.
Same with John texting E. The lie starts when we see their texts on screen.
They deliberately filmed these scenes separately (when John gets off the bus the second time, the man who gets on the bus holds his newspaper differently + there’s another car on the background) (Mary’s “Mommy’s coming” and “I’m coming” will bother me for eternity!). There have to be reasons. 100%.
(I love TST and its fuckiness so much, I could rambling about that for hours)
Haha thank you very much! Obviously this was made before The Lying Detective came out so you can see the Fresh Hell we were in.
Yeah honestly the thing that baffles me the most is the scene inconsistency whenever they’re talking about horror movies in bed (WHICH IS A META IN ITSELF). Like the scene ends BOTH times with John looking at a text, and the only difference is in the NEXT camera change. Why the fuck did they use two slightly different versions? What was the point? Don’t they know how crazy their fanbase is? Same with the bus.
Yeah I love the narration point as well. This whole episode was set up to show us it’s fake. So either Moftiss missed an opportunity that was practically gift wrapped for them to take, or there’s something more at play…
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